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Support for Forum comes from Broadway S.F. presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.

From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,

a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an

unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion.

The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.

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From KQED.

From KQED, public radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

All this week we've been listening back on some of our favorite episodes of Forum, and today

it's my interview with forest ecologist Suzanne Samard.

Decades ago when Samard set out to understand why forests would often heal themselves when

left to their own devices, she uncovered early

evidence that trees communicate with each other, lending mutual aid during times of duress.

Through cryptic underground fungal networks, trees relay information, and old trees can discern

which seedlings are their own and transmit nutrients to them. We'll talk to Samard about her work

and the intertwined story of her family chronicled in her new book, Finding the Mother Tree. Join us.

This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. If you've driven the avenue of the giants or walked among

California's towering redwoods or sequoias, you're probably familiar with that sense of wonder and

calm that often comes with being in that cathedral of trees. And Suzanne Samard's new book has given us

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